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Grouchio posted:I know Hummers were the face of the bush years in the 00s, but what is the chuddiest car for the 10s? 
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Needs an American flag and a Gadsden flag Gadsden flag can be replaced by thin blue line flag. Punisher skull and molon labe stickers optional.
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There were enough Ford pick ups sold that those needing a political statement need to use kits.
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Badger of Basra posted:is there any kind of extension for chrome that will let me take notes that come up when I go to a specific page? I'd like to record notes for my future self for recipes (like "use higher oven temp" etc) and would like to be able to see them whenever I go to the page instead of looking them up in a notebook or a doc Search "sticky notes chrome"
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1. I understand an article like this but I still want to know if the manufacturing company pockets the surcharge or the retailer that actually sells the graphics cards. Nvidia and AMD name MSRP's, so I guess they sell the cards at those regular prices to the retailers (or they would not have those MSRP's)? That would mean every single retailer in the world is taking liberty to inflate the prices themselves because they can. Is that right? Sorry if this is a stupid question. 2. There is a house in our street where you can hear a "deep deep" sound every second or so (not always). Two older people live there. I am not sure I want to breach the subject, so I'm asking here. What is the most likely medical device that would make a regular sound you'd have in your home? Thanks.
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:2. There is a house in our street where you can hear a "deep deep" sound every second or so (not always). Two older people live there. I am not sure I want to breach the subject, so I'm asking here. What is the most likely medical device that would make a regular sound you'd have in your home? Thanks. This could be a dead battery/low power alert that isn't audible to the people who live there.
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Good thinking. I'll just ask then. Thanks. (It's going on for weeks though and they have their relatives around sometimes)
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CzarChasm posted:Looking at your stuff the condition appears to be good, you might have a little pile of $$ you are sitting on. I've never seen those coins, but they are pretty cool      definitely going to go to a professional with this stuff. the price difference on things like those mickey mantles ungraded vs graded is staggering.
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:1. I understand an article like this but I still want to know if the manufacturing company pockets the surcharge or the retailer that actually sells the graphics cards. Nvidia and AMD name MSRP's, so I guess they sell the cards at those regular prices to the retailers (or they would not have those MSRP's)? That would mean every single retailer in the world is taking liberty to inflate the prices themselves because they can. Is that right? Sorry if this is a stupid question. That's about right. The distributors and big retailers who order direct are the ones who take the hit for shipping and tariffs. Delays aside, the cost of sending a single shipping container from China to X country has tripled (at a minimum). So retailers are inflating prices to adjust for the increased cost of goods sold, as well as increased demand. This is the latest article about shipping I can find: https://www.economist.com/business/a-return-to-container-shippings-pre-pandemic-days-is-a-long-way-off/21806844 E: one thing the article doesn't mention is that the big shipping companies are investing massively in new ships to adjust for the increased demand, and incoming environmental regulations mean that those ships will be more expensive to build, at least for a little while. So shipping prices are probably going to remain high for quite some time. This is not a stupid question by any means, supply chains are kinda complicated and dumb at the best of times. E2: the article does mention it 
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Captain Invictus posted:thanks for your help(and other goons's help), I went through one of the boxes over the last few hours and picked out some noteworthy stuff. it's mostly in great shape with a few exceptions, and there's a handful of goodies like these: Tell me you’ve got a Bill Ripkin fuckface in there.
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If it's from 1960-1966, it's probably somewhere amidst the boxes. I was literally thinking of that exact card when sorting through things, wondering if he had one lol
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Captain Invictus posted:If it's from 1960-1966, it's probably somewhere amidst the boxes. I was literally thinking of that exact card when sorting through things, wondering if he had one lol It looks like it was a 1989 fleer card, so probably not. 
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Captain Invictus posted:If it's from 1960-1966, it's probably somewhere amidst the boxes. I was literally thinking of that exact card when sorting through things, wondering if he had one lol Do give an update on how much bank you end up making on your secret hoard. Update on my stupid question from earlier about reading ebooks in the bathtub. I ended up trying the ziploc bag idea and it works a treat! Now I'm reading my usual fluff fantasy books in the bathtub for the low low price of zero extra dollars. Thanks to everyone who gave me advice!
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The fact that the new year is just like a week and a half after the solstice makes me think they were trying to hit the solstice and got it slightly wrong. It makes a lot of sense that you would mark your new year at the solstice, and why else would they be so close? I know the evolution of calendars is actually really complicated, and that other calendars have other new years dates, but I'm wondering about this in particular with regards to our (gregorian) calendar. Is my guess right?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Tell me you’ve got a Bill Ripkin fuckface in there. Never heard about this so I googled it. Fun read. It's hard to imagine that it was oh-so scandalous at the time.
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alnilam posted:The fact that the new year is just like a week and a half after the solstice makes me think they were trying to hit the solstice and got it slightly wrong. It makes a lot of sense that you would mark your new year at the solstice, and why else would they be so close? I know the evolution of calendars is actually really complicated, and that other calendars have other new years dates, but I'm wondering about this in particular with regards to our (gregorian) calendar. Is my guess right? iirc yes, but kinda. The Roman calendar before Caesar's reforms (the Julian calendar) was not a constant fixed thing, and the first January 1 of the new calendar was specifically chosen for its alignment with the solar year... I think that means the solstice but can't confirm. But also: 1) the solstice moves (I think it's four days earlier now than it was then) and 2) the calendar we use (the Gregorian calendar) is 10 days ahead of the Julian
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so many people hated 2020 and 2021 that i wonder if we could try a new, more democratic calendar. we give 2022 a week and if everyone agrees that it sucks after 7 days we vote to move on and then it's jan 1st 2023. keep repeating until we hit a good year
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The Roman calendar used to have a ten months with March as the first month and “winter” just taking up what we call January and February. Kind of like that idea. But also means that the New Year being anywhere near the winter solstice is pretty random historical chance.
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I was chatting with my Chinese neighbour the other day and she mentioned how she's n+1 years old in China because they do ages strangely over there. I asked if the n+1 stuff was because of lunar / gregorian new year and she said she had no idea / nor really any idea how it worked. Guess my question is, what is up with the way they do ages in China? Seems easier to just roll with ages being based around a calendar instead of people being 25+1 or what ever years old and not just 25 or 26.
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I thought it was that they start counting at 1 when you are born, as in you are in your first year, whereas in the US we begin counting at 0, as in you have not lived a full year yet.
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alnilam posted:I thought it was that they start counting at 1 when you are born, as in you are in your first year, whereas in the US we begin counting at 0, as in you have not lived a full year yet. Wouldn't that just make you 'n' years old though. She specifically mentioned that she is "n plus one" year old. Not the result of the equation but actually saying the "plus one" part. And that not everyone is "plus one" some are just a simple number.
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Inceltown posted:Wouldn't that just make you 'n' years old though. She specifically mentioned that she is "n plus one" year old. Not the result of the equation but actually saying the "plus one" part. And that not everyone is "plus one" some are just a simple number. Maybe try the Chinese language thread?
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smackfu posted:The Roman calendar used to have a ten months with March as the first month and “winter” just taking up what we call January and February. Kind of like that idea. this is indeed a great idea, if done in the modern age it should be set up such that during the non-calendar "winter" time of year its illegal to send emails or book meetings
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Inceltown posted:Wouldn't that just make you 'n' years old though. ... There are two different things going on here. The first is that traditional ages in China do work differently. The other is I think you are misunderstanding the meaning of the English/math phrase "n plus one"; I think she just meant that (for most of the year, or maybe at that specific time of year), whatever number her age is in the US (e.g. 27), her age would be called the number one higher in China (e.g. 28).
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Just going to casually mention the Islamic lunar calendar, which is based on the moon instead of the sun, which doesn't line up. So the months move through the seasons by some days a year. Eventually, that means that a birthday counted by the lunar calendar would be a year ahead of a solar calendar. But I can't remember if it's hundreds or tens of years before that happens.
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To throw some anecdotal knowledge into the pile here, I do remember learning about this as a kid from my uncle (a legit Buddhist priest); when we celebrated Chinese New Year he mentioned our age is typically counted as about a year at birth. I'm guessing the rationale has something to do with just counting the gestation period itself but that was how I justified it in my little ten year old brain
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Blood Nightmaster posted:To throw some anecdotal knowledge into the pile here, I do remember learning about this as a kid from my uncle (a legit Buddhist priest); when we celebrated Chinese New Year he mentioned our age is typically counted as about a year at birth. I'm guessing the rationale has something to do with just counting the gestation period itself but that was how I justified it in my little ten year old brain Common in the East https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Traditional%20Japanese%20Age%20System.html
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BonHair posted:Just going to casually mention the Islamic lunar calendar, which is based on the moon instead of the sun, which doesn't line up. So the months move through the seasons by some days a year. Eventually, that means that a birthday counted by the lunar calendar would be a year ahead of a solar calendar. But I can't remember if it's hundreds or tens of years before that happens. About 31 years, a lunar year is 11 or 12 days shorter than a solar year
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Silver Falcon posted:Do give an update on how much bank you end up making on your secret hoard. And I still have two boxes to go through. Christ, I wasn't expecting this when we started (literally in some cases) digging through his house looking for things that we could donate.
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Captain Invictus posted:well I showed those pictures to a guy I work with who flips sports cards and his eyes bugged out of his head and he told me to go to PSA ASAP and get them investigated for potential gradeable cards at the minimum, and said we've got at least a small fortune on our hands. I am so invested in this now, maybe it should be a thread?
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I've noticed that a bunch of porn studios have started uploading free content to Pornhub. What is the "angle" on this? In the past the strategy appeared to be legit companies uploading shorter versions of their videos, but now it is full length.
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Captain Invictus posted:well I showed those pictures to a guy I work with who flips sports cards and his eyes bugged out of his head and he told me to go to PSA ASAP and get them investigated for potential gradeable cards at the minimum, and said we've got at least a small fortune on our hands. If you end up making a thread for this, link it here! I'd follow it.
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Professor Shark posted:I've noticed that a bunch of porn studios have started uploading free content to Pornhub. What is the "angle" on this? In the past the strategy appeared to be legit companies uploading shorter versions of their videos, but now it is full length. Probably a similar version to why they used to offer shorter versions of their full videos - give you a taste, see if you like it, and if so, here's where more is. I don't know if pornhub works like youtube in that if you have a certain number of subscribers/likes you get paid for just being there, and then that increases based on number of clicks/views. Maybe it's to entice more clicks in general.
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alnilam posted:The fact that the new year is just like a week and a half after the solstice makes me think they were trying to hit the solstice and got it slightly wrong. It makes a lot of sense that you would mark your new year at the solstice, and why else would they be so close? I know the evolution of calendars is actually really complicated, and that other calendars have other new years dates, but I'm wondering about this in particular with regards to our (gregorian) calendar. Is my guess right? Cæsar’s goal was indeed to have the winter solstice start the year. The reason it’s not there now is because the Romans implemented it wrong, adding leap years every third year, rather than having three common years before a leap year. If you have several February leap years when you shouldn’t, the calendar date falls behind the “real” (tropical) year, as it relates to the seasons. Further complicating matters, the Gregorian reform returned the calendar not to the correspondence between seasons that it had at the time of Cæsar, but to the correspondence it had at the time of the First Council of Niceæ in A.D. 325, when the date of Easter was established.
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smackfu posted:Maybe they are getting a cut of the ad money for the full videos? This is what I assumed, some kind of model like Youtube.
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Does anyone know of a website or programme that will teach me how to play chess? New player that knows very little.
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Extra row of tits posted:Does anyone know of a website or programme that will teach me how to play chess? This is the most newbie friendly tutorial I've found for people who know very little. https://lichess.org/learn#/ It's also good to try some of the puzzles on lichess.org or chess.com
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